So for the past school year I have showed up to school everyday. I even went when I had a throat infection (I was medicated and the doctor said I could go). Why? So I could get perfect attendance. With two weeks of school left I receive pink eye. Now I have to stay home.

I really don't know how that is fair. So when a person gets in a car crash, or a family member falls deathly ill are they still expected to show up? It's also really hard to book doctor appointments around school. I know it's perfect attendance for a reason, but I just feel like complaining haha.

did someone get your throat infection too?

I think it's perfectly justified. You do normally catch diseases from other people, and at school you'll probably catch what whoever else has.

You didn't show up=not perfect attendance. Almost perfect I guess :D

Ahh that fails :/ i've never heard of pink eye o_o But yeah, i think having perfect attendance is about luck .. you just can't help it if you do get ill or shit comes up.

I had already gotten medicine and the okay from the doctor to go to school. Going to school with a sore throat is fine, people do it all the time. Having a eye that squirts pus isn't haha.

Almost perfect, true :) .

Is a perfect attendance actually that important or did you just want it? We didn't have that at school, if I remember correctly. We just got warned if we were absent too many days... but never praised for constant presence.

I don't get it. It's okay for you to go to school when you have something wrong so that you're able to have perfect attendance, but when someone else comes to school sick it's not fair to you if you catch it? Perfect attendance isn't too important in the long run, anyway.

The doctor said I could go to school, I was no longer contagious.

Akayasuma, I just wanted it. I wanted to accomplish more this year, and perfect attendance seemed pretty easy. It also doesn't look bad on university applications.

Regardless of whether or not you were still contagious at the time it's still the same concept. Did the girl know at the time she had pink eye? Did she come to school just with the thought in her head "I'M GOING TO SCREW UP SO-AND-SO'S PERFECT ATTENDANCE"? Maybe she wanted perfect attendance just like you. You catch stuff from people, and there's not much you can do about it.

How is it the same concept? I can't get people sick, she can.

It was quite obvious she had pink eye. I didn't say she came to school to mess up my perfect attendance, but if you're obviously sick and obviously contagious stay home. She also doesn't want perfect attendance she's missed days already.

I'm going to edit my first post to not involve her. I'm more complaining about how I've showed up everyday and now I lost it. Don't get me wrong I realize that it's perfect attendance for a reason, but I'm allowed to complain about how it sucks and it's flaws.

Just because it isn't important to you doesn't mean it isn't to other people. I set out at the beginning of the year with this as one of my goals, am I not allowed to be disappointed that I didn't achieve it?

I totally understand. I remember getting perfect attendance in third grade (without trying), and on the last day my teacher was all praise-y and I got a special treat, and I was like "Oh hell yeah!" so the next year I tried to get it again. A couple weeks before the end of the year, I got strep throat and no matter how much I begged my parents to let me go to school they made me stay home. I was so upset I cried. And then the next year I pretended to be sick and stayed home a few days every month xD

Seriously though, colleges don't care about perfect attendance. Everyone gets sick, things happen. All perfect attendance means is that that year, you either happened to only get sick on weekends or went to school contagious :P

I think I had perfect attendance one year, probably in elementary school. I've never really cared about it, although I tend to only miss a few days each year. There was one girl at a school in our district who had perfect attendance for her entire life though, which I thought was weird as hell. How in 13 years you wouldn't have to miss school for being sick, going to a funeral, going on vacation, or just waking up late.

It sucks to come that close to a goal only to have something beyond your control screw it all up, though. On the bright side you get some time off.

While it may be a personal goal to have perfect attendance, its not going to effect you at all later in life.

Its definitely nothing to go crying over. So you got sick, it happens. Especially in public schools.

Recently i had flu, laryngitis, and pneumonia all within 2 months.

That'd royally fuck your perfect attendance. Rofl.

You should NOT go to work or school when you're not feeling well. Nobody wants to get what you have, and its hard to be productive when you're feeling like shit.

No offense, but I hated it when people would come into school sick. It was disgusting. I don't want your diseases, thanks. Especially runny noses. -shudder- You can sacrifice a day's classes to get better.

that sux.

btw for people who aren't american pink eye = Conjunctivitis

Also, even if perfect attendance is important to you personally, it still doesn't count in the long run. You won't fail if you miss a day, it doesn't help you in the real world, you won't get a better life because you have perfect attendance.

Wait until you have kids, have to miss work because they're contagious and can't go to daycare. Then get 'poor attendance' put into your record and held against you. THEN, complain. ;)

Perfect Attendance...not really importantO.o It's important to get to as many classes as possible, but if you make other people sick...just not worth the trouble.